Online News Addiction: Future Anxiety, Fear of Missing Out on News, and Interpersonal Trust Contribute to Excessive Online News Consumption

Following online news and updates have become an ever-increasing part of life in the information age. Surprisingly, however, there is no standardized measurement to examine excessive consumption context. This study was conducted order address addiction by developing validating a questionnaire. Furthermore, this investigated psychological determinants consequences addiction. A 9-item questionnaire developed assess participants’ maladaptive consumption. Exploratory factor analysis suggested one-factor model including 9 items, accounting for 51.47 total variance. The confirmatory showed support model. results revealed that had acceptable internal consistency reliability. Future anxiety, fear missing out on news, interpersonal trust were associated with High future anxiety predicted tendency consume excessively. Contrarily, those high expressed lower Additionally, significant predictor problematic internet use. These findings increase knowledge indicate can be viewed as potential addictive behavior may contribute